My Grandmother's Ring

<p>From her own perspective of having lived a happy and enriched life but nothing remarkable my grandmother Lorraine Rey Isaacs Hofeller my Meme lived a full 106 and a half magical years through three centuries experienced two world wars and countless other wars lived through the Great Depression positioned herself as a trailblazer long before women were considered leaders-and is remembered as the last survivor of the 1900 storm in Galveston Texas.</p><p></p><p>Her remarkable life story as seen through her violet eyes and interpreted by me-her youngest grandchild her namesake Laurie Kuper Bricker--is a collection of tales of wonderment as Lorraine embraced each day of her life from February of 1896 through July of 2002.</p><p></p><p>Her incredible engagement ring mailed to her from Buffalo New York by Sigmar Hofeller in 1918 accompanied her through the journey of youth to old age and beyond.</p><p>More than anecdotal the chapters refresh and revise what life was like in a simpler time. Maybe it was simpler as generations to follow look back but it was not so simple then!</p>